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SASH LIFTING HOOK- No. 898,533. Patented Nov. 27, 1888.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LOUIS F. BLUE, OF MARYSVILLE, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE VAN \VAGONER & WILLIAMS COMPANY, OF NEW' YORK, N. Y.

SASH-LIFTING HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 393,533, dated November 27, 1888.

Application filed April 3,1888. Serial No. 269,452. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIs F. BLUE,of Marysville, in the county of Union and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sash-Lifting Hooks; and I do hereby declare that the following specification,taken in connection with the drawings furnished and forming a part of the same, is a clear, true, and complete description of my in- IO vention.

The objects of my said improvements are to provide in sash-lifting hooks composed of wire such strength as will render them suitable for use on heavy sashes, an abundant bearingsurface for enabling even heavy sashes to be lifted without hurting the fingers of people using them, and also to enable them to be strongly applied to sashes at a minimum of cost and labor. I accomplish all of these ends by the use of a length of wire of proper size and quality, and bending it so as to form four parallel shanks or legs and a quadrupled hook, and in providing at the feet of the shanks one or more rectangular puncturing'studs and one or more eyes, so that in applying a hook to a sash-rail,or to any other device to be lifted by means of said hook, it can be easily fixed in place by driving the puncturing stud or studs into the wood and then firmly securing the hook in position by means of an ordinary screw. The wire extending from the tops of the four shanks and bent to form the hook portion develops a quadrupled hook of great strength, and the four portions of the wire lying side by side afford an extensive bearingsurface for the finger, as when lifting a sash.

To more particularly describe my invention, I will refer to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure I, in front and side views, illustrates one of my improved hooks in its best form. Fig. 2, in front and side views, illustrates one of my hooks slightly modified as to form. Fig. 3, in front and rear views, illustrates one of my hooks in still another form. Fig. 4 illustrates a straight length of wire, such as would be used in forming either of these hooks.

The hook A,Fig. 1,has four parallel shanks or legs, a a a a The legs a a are at the two sides of the hook, and. at the foot of each the wire is bent rearward rectangnlarly and sharpened to form a puncturingstnd, b. The two inner shanks or legs are united at their feet and bent to form an eye, a. The hook portion d is composed of the four portions of wire extending forward from the shanks, thus placing the said four portions side by side,and these being bent downward form a symmetrical quadruple hook,witl1 an extensive finger bearing-surface.

The hook A of Fig. 2 has also the four parallel shanks or legs aaa' afland the hook portion d is as in Fig. l; but at the foot of the two outer shanks,a a,eyes c are provided,and the two inner shanks, a a are united at the bottom, bent rearward at right angles to the shank,and flattened into a chisel-shaped puncturingstud. In using this form of hook two ordinary screws are required; but one will usually serve the purpose when accompanied by two puncturing-studs, and hence the hook shown in Fig. 1, is preferred by me. In both forms of book the disposition of the wire in the hook portion (1 is the same, and this novel feature of having the four portions of wire side by side for affording the desired extensive finger bearing-surface is of substantial value,regardless of the number of legs or shanks as, for instance, the hook A of Fig. 3 has the hook portion d,substantially as in Figs. 1 and 2,and its shanks a and a, with their puncturingstuds, are as in Fig. 1; but the two inner shanks are so short as to merely afford a good bearing against the surface of a sash-rail, but they form an eye, 0, which is accessible for driving a screw or a nail by way of an opening, (1, in the front of the hook portion.

It will be seen that either of the forms of hook shown can be readily fixed in position by driving the puncturing-studs, and that if the eye or eyes he then properly occupied by screws or nails a firm union with a sash will be effected with a minimum of labor. It will also be seen that my wire hooks afford as much finger bearing-surface as the ordinary 5 cast-metal hooks, are much stronger, and that they can be economically produced.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A sash-lifting hook composed of a con- 10o tinuous length of wire and having four parallel legs or shanks provided at their lower ends with one or more eyes for screws,and also with one or more puncturing-studs, and having its hook portion composed of portions of the wire side by side and forming a quadruple hook,

5 substantially as described. 1

2. In asash-liftiing hook composed of a conformed of four portions of the Wire bent to and fro and affording an extensive finger bearingsurface, substanniall y as described.

LOUIS F. BLUE.

l/Vitnesses:

.lAs. W. ALLEN,

tainuous length of wire, a quadrupled hook RALPH W". HUMES. 

